Installation for six CD
players and four video projectors (the idea of multiple eternally looping
tapes dates back to the original installation version of Luc Ferrari's
"Music Promenade" in the mid-1960s, and was also incorporated
instrumentally in 1970s "Tautologos 3"). Each of the six CDs (for
the mixdown into this single-CD version, Ferrari simply started them off at
one-minute intervals) contains ten spans of sound two two-minute spoken
texts, four five-minute "ambiences" recordings of "sounds of
everyday life," and four four-minute composed "tonalities" or
"harmonic threads," chosen by selecting notes at random. The
"ambiences" include exquisite field recordings of the Parisian
streets where Ferrari grew up, as well as seaside and insect soundscapes
recalling the "Presque Rien" series, a snippet of Thelonious Monk's
"Misterioso," and even, apparently, the sound of the composer's
wife putting on makeup. Elise Caron (Voice), Brunhild Meyer (Voice), Kora
Bruckhoven (Voice)

BC 1

FERRARI, LUC

INTERRUPTEUR/TAUTOLOGOS 3

9/8/1999

Performed by Ensemble
Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Paris under the direction of
Konstantin Simonovitch. The instrumentation on Interrupteur is English horn,
clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, two
percussions, two electric organs; that on Tautologos 3 is Flute, oboe,
clarinet, trumpet, trombone, viola, cello, double bass, electric guitar,
electric organ, vibraphone.